Running KDE under Windows some problems

[Ralf Habacker]

Nicolas Pavlidis schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> I'll hope now the posting to this list works :-)
>
> Yesterday I had some problems running KDE, than I found out that the
> installers seams to miss the strigi dependency, 
this is fixed on the download server
> ok
> I installed the missing package and reallye the different applications
> start up. If I srat up kdeinit / kde4.exe I'm left with a command window
> that says, that some process is being created, well ok. But than nothing
> happens.
>   
this is normal these applications does not produce any output. If you 
like to have debug output install the dbgview tool.
> Next, if I try to start up konqueror, at first I get the message, that
> kabout_dialog.dll was not found, but Konqueror comes up,
> If I try to enter an URL I get the message, that KHTML was not found,
> which is clear the Konqueror needs it to display HTML :-)
>
> So the next thing, if I try to configure Konqueror, Konqueror crashes
> imediatly after pressing the corresponding Menuitem.
>
> The next app I tried to start up was KWrite. Here the behaviour was,
> that it crashes imideatly after starting the app, also saying that some
> depedency was not met :-(
>
>   
this looks at least partially be fixed in svn 
http://windows.kde.org/news.php#itemAnewbrowseratthewindowsheaven and 
will probably work with the next release or earlier if someone will make 
a patch for kdebase.

> Right now I'm trying to install everything I that may be needed by the
> different apps, maybe that will fix the problems (switched to the new
> version of the KDE installer) There seam to be problems with downloading
> some packaes, unfortunately the installer do not say with package it is
> in the message directly to it is a bit hard to get the list of faild
> packages to post it here.
>   
Please send me personally the content of the file kdewin-installer.log 
from the installer download dir, which is written each time the 
installer runs.
> BTW: I've installed msvc (version 8 and 9) and MinGW, it would be fine
> if the installer would ask the people if they wanna use an existing
> installtion of msvc (I don't know if the same problem exists with MinGW,
> instead of blindly installing the same thing two times :-)
>   
This is because in installers < 0.8.1 external installers are not marked 
after the installation in the database. This should be fixed now. 

Ralf